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“We suspect that Meta’s moderation is insufficient” and “lacks transparency of advertisements and content moderation procedures.”
– said European Commission Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager on Tuesday about the Commission initiating investigations to evaluate whether Meta might have violated the Digital Services Act.
Story of the week: The European Commission initiated investigations on Tuesday to evaluate whether Meta,
Netflix’s Maya Kowalski has filed a criminal complaint claiming she was ‘sexually abused at Johns Hopkins All Children’s hospital’ after winning a landmark lawsuit against the Florida facility for more than $261 million in damages.
Jurors this week ruled in favor of the teen, whose story is the subject of the bombshell Netflix documentary ‘Take Care of Maya,’ and found that the JHACH had falsely imprisoned her – leading to the suicide of her mother Beata Kowalski in 2017 after
Tottenham have reportedly placed four players on their transfer list in the final month of the summer window. Ange Postecoglou is seemingly desperate to trim down his squad in north London, despite the fact two exciting transfer deals are set to be announced in the coming days.
Former Celtic boss Postecoglou already has well over 30 players at his disposal. With more arrivals in the pipeline, Spurs have decided to take decisive action by putting four players up for sale.
Warsaw is filing a complaint to the European Commission against Berlin for allegedly failing to remove waste illegally transported from Germany to Poland and stored there, Climate Minister Anna Moskwa said on Wednesday (26 July).
Some 35,000 tonnes of waste was illegally moved to Poland by German companies and stored at seven sites and has not been removed despite several formal requests, she said, without specifying the sites’ locations or when the waste was stored.
Warsaw had appealed “numerous times”
Days after taking over Twitter and a week before the U.S. midterm elections, billionaire Elon Musk has positioned himself as ‘Twitter Complaint Hotline Operator’ of one of the most important platforms in American politics.
The change was made during another wild day for the social media giant under Musk, as Twitter’s advertising chief, Sarah Personette, tweeted on Tuesday that she resigned following an exodus of nearly the entire senior ranks.
Musk has said he won’t make major decisions about the
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“The provisional agreement reached today represents a major paradigm shift in police and judicial cooperation with service providers in the EU.”
-MEP Birgit Sippel, European Parliament’s rapporteur on the e-Evidence Regulation.
Story of the week: The EU co-legislators have (almost) reached a final political agreement on the e-Evidence package on Tuesday, which is intended to put
